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Speaker John Boehner’s plan to extend the debt limit and cut spending is on hold because a large group of Republicans (including a bloc of Texans) won’t back their leader. Check out how your Texas representative will be voting. …

In a letter to President Barack Obama, Sugar Land Rep. Pete Olson and other Republican lawmakers today also are blasting the decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as evidence that U.S. energy policy is off track. …

Remember the famous (or infamous) photo of the CEOs of America’s largest tobacco companies being sworn in as witnesses before a hostile House committee some 18 years ago? Remember the hostile grilling they got from Chairman Henry Waxman and other Democrats? Well, the CEOs of America’s largest oil companies are taking pains to make sure another similar scene doesn’t take place today.

Instead, the executives are set to argue vehemently against proposed tax hikes during today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing. Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson will tell the panel that Democrats are unfairly singling out the firms with a “discriminatory and punitive” plan to eliminate tax credits and deductions used broadly by other industries.

Six Republican lawmakers from Texas once again implored President Obama today to provide federal disaster assistance to Texas for fighting the wildfires that have raged over 2.2 million acres — about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The GOP representatives chalked up Obama’s refusal to grant Gov. Rick Perry’s request to punishing the state for not voting for him.

Even though Obama has granted disaster declarations to several states that didn’t vote for him, such as North Dakota, Alabama and Mississippi, Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, said that’s because he is “going after the big boys.”

Two days after U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in his million-dollar hideaway in the suburbs of Pakistan’s capital, Texas Rep. Ted Poe introduced a proposal to freeze American aid to Pakistan until it shows that it had no knowledge of bin Laden’s whereabouts.

“Pakistan has a lot of explaining to do,” Poe said. “It seems unimaginable that Osama bin Laden was living 1,000 yards away from a military base in a million-dollar mansion built especially for him and no one in the Pakistani government knew about it. I don’t buy it.”